EP0545380B1 - Emulsions à l'halogénure d'argent sensibilisées spectralement au rayonnement infrarouge avec des nouveaux colorants cyanines - Google Patents

Emulsions à l'halogénure d'argent sensibilisées spectralement au rayonnement infrarouge avec des nouveaux colorants cyanines Download PDF

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EP0545380B1
EP0545380B1 EP92120556A EP92120556A EP0545380B1 EP 0545380 B1 EP0545380 B1 EP 0545380B1 EP 92120556 A EP92120556 A EP 92120556A EP 92120556 A EP92120556 A EP 92120556A EP 0545380 B1 EP0545380 B1 EP 0545380B1
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  • the present invention relates to photographic light-sensitive silver halide emulsions wherein the silver halide grains are spectrally sensitized to infrared radiation at wavelengths above 800nm, to photographic elements and film units employing these emulsions and to a class of pentamethine cyanine dyes employed as the infrared sensitizing dyes.
  • spectral sensitizing dyes notably cyanine dyes.
  • This technique has been employed to sensitize silver halide emulsions to a specific wavelength region in the visible and also the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and has been widely used in the production of photosensitive elements for color photography which comprise a plurality of spectrally sensitized emulsion layers that respond to different wavelength regions of the spectrum.
  • This technique also has been employed in the production of panchromatically sensitized emulsions, generally by employing a combination of sensitizing dyes to provide the requisite sensitivity over the wavelength range of 400nm to 650nm.
  • cyanine dyes have been used as spectral sensitizing dyes including polymethine dyes possessing a fluoro-substituted benzothiazole nucleus.
  • Kiprianov and Yagupolsky in J. Chem. USSR, 20, 211: Eng. Trans. 2187 (1950) disclose symmetrical and unsymmetrical cationic cyanine dyes obtained from derivatives of 6-fluorobenzothiazole.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,387,155 is directed to certain unsymmetrical cyanine dyes useful as green sensitizing dyes which possess a benzoxazole nucleus and a 5-fluorobenzothiazole nucleus.
  • 3,955,996 discloses a method for spectrally sensitizing a photographic light-sensitive emulsion employing a spectral sensitizing dye having an amidinium ion auxochrome and in columns 3 and 4 disclose numerous cyanine dyes including symmetrical and unsymmetrical polymethine dyes of fluoro-substituted benzothiazoles.
  • the present invention is concerned with photographic light-sensitive materials, particularly photographic light-sensitive silver halide emulsions spectrally sensitized to infrared radiation above 800nm employing a novel class of pentamethine cyanine dyes of 5-fluorobenzothiazole derivatives.
  • These dyes can be readily incorporated into a wide variety of photographic silver halide emulsion systems for use in both black-and-white and color imaging.
  • the resulting emulsions besides possessing high sensitivity in the infrared, exhibit good stability against fogging before, during and after coating. Indeed, the coated photosensitive emulsions exhibit excellent speed in the infrared region of the spectrum as well as good sensitivity in the blue region of inherent sensitivity and retain these sensitivities on prolonged storage at room temperature.
  • certain pentamethine cyanine dyes are effective as infrared spectral sensitizing dyes, which dyes may be represented by the following formula wherein R 1 is alkyl having 2 to 4 carbon atoms or -(CH 2 ) m R' wherein R' is carboxy or sulfo and m is 2, 3 or 4; R 2 is -(CH 2 ) n R'' wherein R'' is carboxy or sulfo and n is 2, 3 or 4; Z + is a counter ion; and p is 1 or 2 provided p is 1 when R 1 is alkyl and p is 2 when R 1 is -(CH 2 ) m R'.
  • R' and R'' are sulfo, and in a particularly preferred embodiment, R 1 is -(CH 2 ) m R' wherein R' is sulfo and -(CH 2 ) m R' and -(CH 2 ) n R'' are the same. These dyes exhibit the ability to form a stable J-band aggregate.
  • Z + is a water-soluble cation and may be any single atomic ion, such as sodium or potassium, or an ionic group having a positive charge, for example, ammonium, triethylammonium, triethanolammonium, pyridinium and the like and usually is triethylammonium.
  • the subject dyes can be synthesized in accordance with known procedures as described in the following syntheses and as described in F.M. Hamer, The Cyanine Dyes and Related Compounds, Interscience Publishers, New York (1964).
  • the subject dyes and those set forth below as comparative dyes may be synthesized as follows:
  • the appropriately substituted 2-methylbenzothiazole base (1) where a and b represent the substituents (H, F, Cl, or CF 3 ) may be reacted at about 120°C with propane sultone (2), butane sultone (3), or ethyl-p-toluene sulfonate (4) in sulfolane to give the N-substituted 2-methylbenzothiazole quaternary salt (5) where R 1 is a sulfopropyl, sulfobutyl, or an ethyl group, respectively.
  • X- may be p-toluene sulfonate or other anion.
  • the dyes (9) may be prepared by condensing the appropriate quaternary salts (5) with either 1,3,3-trimethoxypropene (7) or a malonaldehyde anil hydrochloride (6) in the presence of triethylamine (8).
  • the reaction involves two equivalents of the same quaternary salt reacting with either (7) or (8) to give the corresponding pentamethine dye.
  • Z is the triethylammonium ion.
  • R 1 and R 2 are alkyl
  • "Z" may be p-toluene sulfonate or other appropriate ion.
  • the dyes comprising carboxyalkyl groups may be prepared in a conventional manner by reacting the heterocyclic base with an appropriate bromo-ester followed by hydrolysis.
  • the betaine 148.5g (0.514 moles), was placed in a 1-liter round bottom flask and suspended with stirring in 250ml of a solvent mixture consisting of 10% absolute ethanol and 90% acetonitrile. The mixture was heated in an oil bath to 80°C, and 34g (0.257 moles) of 1,3,3-trimethoxypropene was added. After a few minutes of stirring, 36ml (0.257 moles) of triethylamine were added, the solution instantly turning a deep magenta-blue color. Stirring and heating were continued for an additional 2 hours, during which time a gelatinous solid formed and fell out of solution. The dark suspension was allowed to cool to room temperature, and the solid blue dye was collected by vacuum filtration.
  • the dye was washed with acetonitrile until the eluent was free of magenta color, then resuspended in 100ml of 2-propanol and refluxed for 10 minutes. The suspension was allowed to cool to room temperature, the blue solid was collected by vacuum filtration and washed with 200ml of cold ethanol. The dye was recrystallized from hot trifluoroethanol and dried in a heated (90°C) vacuum desiccator for 16 hours. The yield of dye was 49.6g (27%). The absorption maximum and epsilon were the same as found in the original preparation. The dye was analyzed by HPLC using a reverse phase C-18 column and an ion pairing reagent in the mobile phase; purity was 97%.
  • the blue solid was collected by vacuum filtration and washed with methanol. Repeated crystallizations from trifluoroethanol failed to purify the product.
  • the dye was purified by column chromatography on dry silica gel. Approximately 1g of dye was dissolved in 200ml of trifluoroethanol at room temperature, poured onto the head of the column and allowed to adsorb onto the silica surface as the solvent was pushed down by air pressure. This is followed by 500ml of methylene chloride to further remove the trifluoroethanol from the adsorbed dye, followed by methylene chloride/methanol (8.5:1.5) to elute the desired product.
  • Malonaldehyde Dianil Hydrochloride was prepared as follows: To a 500ml round bottom 3-necked flask equipped with a mechanical stirrer, pressure equalizing additional funnel, and a reflux condenser was placed 100ml of absolute ethanol. Malonaldehyde bis-dimethyl acetal, 76.8g (0.468), was added to the ethanol followed by 87.1g (0.935 Moles) of aniline. The reaction was heated to reflux for 2 minutes, then allowed to cool to room temperature. Concentrated hydrochloric acid, 1.40 Mole (121ml), was then added dropwise to the solution.
  • a much higher yield of the infrared sensitizing dye prepared in the above Example 3 was obtained by the following procedure: 5-fluoro-2-methyl-3-sulfopropylbenzothiazole was added to a hot (100°C) solution of 1,3,3-trimethoxypropene in acetic acid. Recrystallization of the brown product from hot methanol gave 5-fluoro-2(4-methoxy-1,3-butadienyl)-3-sulfopropylbenzothiazolium betaine; analytical data, NMR and mass spectroscopy were consistent with the anticipated structure.
  • FAB as used above refers to mass spectroscopy using Fast Atom Bombardment Techniques, and all the compounds prepared above gave the correct molecular ion.
  • HPLC refers to High Pressure Liquid Chromatography and TLC refers to Thin Layer Chromatography. HPLC was used to ascertain purity of the dyes as well as monitor progress of some of the reactions. Chromatography was performed on a C-18 reverse phase column, using methanol/water as the eluent. In analyzing the anionic dyes (Examples 1 and 2 and Compounds I-IV and VI), an ion pairing reagent (tert-butylammonium phosphate-0.002 Molar) was used to better retain the dye on the column as well as reduce tailing.
  • ion pairing reagent tert-butylammonium phosphate-0.002 Molar
  • the sensitizing dyes of this invention as represented by general formula (I) may be used alone or in combination with other spectral sensitizing dyes and can be applied to the sensitization of silver halide emulsions to be used for various color or black-and-white photographic processes for forming an image in dye or in silver. They may be incorporated into a photographic silver halide emulsion in a conventional manner. They may be dispersed directly, or they may be dissolved in a suitable solvent such as water, methanol, ethanol, acetone, trifluoroethanol, methyl cellusolve pyridine or a mixture thereof and added as a solution for uniformly distributing the dye throughout the emulsion.
  • the amount of dye employed usually is between about 0.5 and 5.0mgs of dye per gram of silver. The optimum amount for a given emulsion for use in a given photographic system may be readily determined by routine testing.
  • the silver halide emulsion employed can be produced using techniques well-known in the art and can contain as the silver halide component, silver chloride, silver bromide, silver iodide, silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide, silver bromoiodide or silver chlorobromoiodide.
  • Such emulsions can be coarse, medium or fine grain or a mixture thereof, and the silver halide grains may have any configuration, uniform or irregular.
  • gelatin is employed as the binder for the emulsion.
  • the gelatin may be used in admixture with or replaced by other materials, gelatin derivatives, cellulose derivatives, or by synthetic polymeric materials such as, polyvinylalcohol, polyvinylpyrrolidone, and the like.
  • the silver halide emulsion can be chemically sensitized using chemical sensitizers (e.g. sulfur, selenium, tellurium compounds; gold, platinum, palladium compounds; reducing agents such as tin chloride, phenylhydrazine, reductone, etc.) and may contain other additives as discussed in Research Disclosure 17643, December 1978.
  • additives e.g. antifoggants and stabilizers (e.g. noble metal salts, mercury salts, oximes, sulfocatechols, mercapto compounds, thiazolium compounds, urazoles, triazoles, azaindenes, etc.); hardening agents (e.g.
  • natural surfactants such as saponin, nonionic surfactants such as alkylene oxide derivatives, cationic surfactants such as quaternary ammonium salts, anionic surfactants having an acidic group such as a carboxylic, sulfonic or phosphoric acid group and amphoteric surfactants such as amino acids and aminosulfonic acids); and plasticizers and lubricants (e.g. polyalcohols, fatty acids and esters, silicone resins and the like).
  • nonionic surfactants such as alkylene oxide derivatives
  • cationic surfactants such as quaternary ammonium salts
  • anionic surfactants having an acidic group such as a carboxylic, sulfonic or phosphoric acid group and amphoteric surfactants such as amino acids and aminosulfonic acids
  • plasticizers and lubricants e.g. polyalcohols, fatty acids and esters, silicone resins and the like.
  • Photographic elements including emulsions sensitized in accordance with the present invention also may contain other agents such as optical brightening agents, matting agents, anti-static agents, and light-absorbing materials, e.g., antihalation and color correction filter dyes.
  • agents such as optical brightening agents, matting agents, anti-static agents, and light-absorbing materials, e.g., antihalation and color correction filter dyes.
  • the photographic elements also can contain developing agents such as, hydroquinones, catechols, aminophenols, 3-pyrazolidones, substituted hydroxylamines, reductones and phenylenediamines or combinations thereof.
  • the developing agents can be contained in the silver halide emulsion and/or in another suitable location.
  • the developing agent may be used as an auxiliary developer or as a color-forming developer where a color-forming coupler also may be included in the photographic element.
  • Emulsions spectrally sensitized in accordance with the present invention can be coated on a wide variety of supports, for example, glass, paper, metal, cellulose acetate, cellulose nitrate, polyvinylacetal, polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polyamide, polystyrene, polycarbonate, etc.
  • the emulsion can be coated on the support by various coating procedures including dip coating, air knife coating, curtain coating, extrusion coating, etc.
  • Exposure for obtaining a photographic image may be conducted in a conventional manner. That is, any of various known light sources emitting light rays including infrared rays may be employed such as natural sunlight, a tungsten lamp, a cathode ray tube, light-emitting diodes and laser light (e.g., from a gas laser, YAG laser, dye laser, semiconductor laser, etc.). Also, exposure may be effected by using light emitted from a fluorescent body excited with electron beams, X-rays, gamma-rays, ⁇ -rays or the like.
  • any of various known light sources emitting light rays including infrared rays may be employed such as natural sunlight, a tungsten lamp, a cathode ray tube, light-emitting diodes and laser light (e.g., from a gas laser, YAG laser, dye laser, semiconductor laser, etc.).
  • exposure may be effected by using light emitted from a fluorescent body
  • emulsions spectrally sensitized in accordance with this invention are particularly useful in diffusion transfer photographic systems, for providing silver or color images. These photographic processes are now well known and need not be described in detail here.
  • Color image formation in diffusion transfer processes rely upon a differential in mobility or solubility of an image dye-providing material obtained as a function of imagewise development of an exposed silver halide emulsion so as to provide an imagewise distribution of such material which is more diffusible and which, therefore, may be selectively transferred to an image-receiving layer comprising a dyeable stratum to impart thereto the desired color transfer image.
  • the differential in mobility or solubility may be obtained, for example, by a chemical action such as a redox reaction, a silver-ion assisted cleavage reaction or a coupling reaction.
  • Image dye-providing materials which may be employed generally may be characterized as either (1) initially soluble or diffusible in the processing composition but are selectively rendered non-diffusible in an imagewise pattern as a function of development; or (2) initially soluble or non-diffusible in the processing composition but which are selectively rendered diffusible or provide a diffusible product in an imagewise pattern as a function of development.
  • the image dye-providing materials may be complete dyes or dye intermediates.
  • film units employed in diffusion transfer processes for providing multicolor images comprise two or more selectively sensitive silver halide emulsion layers each having associated therewith the appropriate image dye-providing material.
  • these materials are preferably selected for their ability to provide colors that are useful in carrying out subtractive color photography, that is, cyan, magenta and yellow.
  • Such film units also contain an image-receiving layer, i.e., the dyeable stratum; preferably, an acid-reacting reagent, e.g., a polymeric acid layer; and optionally, interlayers or spacer layers between the respective silver halide emulsion layers and associated image dye-providing materials, an interlayer or spacer layer between the polymeric acid layer and the dyeable stratum to control or "time" the pH reduction so that it is not premature and thereby interfere with the development process, overcoat layers and antihalation, subcoat and other layers.
  • an image-receiving layer i.e., the dyeable stratum
  • an acid-reacting reagent e.g., a polymeric acid layer
  • interlayers or spacer layers between the respective silver halide emulsion layers and associated image dye-providing materials
  • the photosensitive component comprising the silver halide emulsion layers sometimes referred to as the "negative component” and the image-receiving component comprising at least the dyeable stratum, referred to as the "positive component” initially may be carried on separate supports (in which event they may be referred to as a photosensitive element and as a second sheet-like element) which are brought together during processing and thereafter retained together as an integral negative-positive reflection print, or they may initially comprise a unitary structure wherein the negative and positive components are retained together prior to, during and after image formation.
  • the film unit may be designed so that the image-receiving or positive element is separated from the remaining layers of the film unit subsequent to processing in order to view the image.
  • the image-receiving layer is carried on the same support as the photosensitive element, and the second, sheet-like element may contain the timing polymeric acid layers; such an element is sometimes referred to in the art as a cover sheet.
  • the liquid processing composition applied subsequent to imagewise exposure comprises at least an aqueous solution of an alkaline material, for example, sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide and preferably possesses a pH in excess of 12 and preferably includes a viscosity-increasing compound constituting a film-forming material, such as, hydroxyethyl cellulose, sodium carboxymethyl cellulose or polydiacetone acrylamide oxime.
  • the processing composition is contained in a rupturable container or pod so positioned as to distribute the processing composition between the superposed sheets of the product or film unit.
  • a developing agent such as those enumerated above; a silver halide solvent such as thiosulfates, uracils and thioether-substituted uracils; a light-absorbing optical filter agent such as the pH-sensitive phthalein dyes described in U.S. Patent No. 3,647,437; and a light-reflecting material such as titanium dioxide also may be included in the processing composition and/or in an appropriate layer of the film unit.
  • the processing composition may contain preservatives, restrainers, accelerators and other reagents as may be desired.
  • an infrared sensitized silver halide emulsion of the present invention can be used in combination with silver halide emulsion(s) selectively sensitized to wavelengths in the visible and/or infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • the other two emulsions used in combination with an infrared sensitized silver halide emulsion of the present invention can be sensitive, respectively to green and red portions of the visible region.
  • one or both of the other two emulsions can be sensitized to other selected wavelengths in the infrared region (750nm -1500nm) as described in U.S. Patent No. 4,619,892.
  • the photosensitive element comprises a support carrying, in sequence, a layer of a cyan image dye-providing material, an infrared sensitized silver halide emulsion, a layer of a magenta image dye-providing material, a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a layer of a yellow image dye-providing material, and a layer of a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion.
  • the image dye-providing materials are dye developers, and exposure is effected using light-emitting diodes (LED) emitting light of the appropriate infrared, red and green wavelengths.
  • Such a combination of light-emitting diodes avoids the use of less efficient blue light-emitting diodes.
  • the usual red, green and blue records are used to provide the image information to activate the infrared, red and green LEDS in known manner, thus providing a normal full color image.
  • the dyes of Examples 1 to 3 and the dyes designated Compounds I to VI were dissolved in trifluoroethanol and the dye solutions were added with stirring to a gelatino silver iodobromide emulsion (1% iodide) containing 4'-methylphenylhydroquinone (MPHQ).
  • the dyes were added to the emulsion at a level of 0.5mg dye/g Ag.
  • the resulting emulsions were coated on a transparent polyethylene terephthalate film base at a coverage of 1200-1300mg Ag/m 2 and 3000mg gelatin/m 2 , and overcoated with a 300mg/m 2 layer of gelatin as a protective topcoat. After air drying at 20-25°C, the sample negatives thus prepared together with control negatives without sensitizing dyes were stored at room temperature and humidity for several days and then exposed and processed.
  • sample negatives were exposed and processed as follows: (1) One set of sample negatives including a control (unsensitized) was exposed at a wavelength of 420nm at 2mcs (meter candle seconds) and processed using a Polaroid Type 52 image receiving sheet and processing composition by superposing the negatives with the receiving sheets and spreading a layer of the processing composition 0.0028 inch thick between the superposed elements. After an imbibition time of one minute in the dark, the receiving sheets were separated from the negatives and the maximum and minimum reflection densities (Dmax/Dmin) were measured for the transfer image. The speed (SPD-L) relative to the control was measured at the 0.75 intercept was determined from an H&D curve generated at this exposure.
  • SPD-L speed relative to the control was measured at the 0.75 intercept was determined from an H&D curve generated at this exposure.
  • a second set of sample negatives including a control was exposed in a wedge spectrograph over the wavelength range of 400nm and 900nm and processed as in (1) above to obtain the sensitivity range (RANGE) and the peak sensitivity (PEAK).
  • the spectrograph was fitted with a target calibrated in nanometers (nm) that was transferred as a grid to the receiving sheet for visual determination of the RANGE and PEAK.
  • a third set of sample negatives including a control was exposed to interference filter targets at 10nm intervals over a wavelength range of 400nm to 900nm and processed as in (1) above.
  • the speed (SPD-H) was determined from an H&D curve generated at the peak sensitivity and was measured at the 0.75 intercept.
  • the emulsions containing the anionic and zwitterionic 5-fluorobenzothiazole dyes of the present invention possess peak spectral absorption in the infrared region at a wavelength well above 800nm and exhibit excellent sensitivity at the peak wavelengths while retaining good sensitivity in the intrinsic region.
  • the emulsions containing the 5-fluorobenzothiazole compound having a meso substituent (Cpd. IV), the cationic 5-fluorobenzothiazole compound (Cpd. V) and the benzothiazole compounds possessing certain 5-/6-substituents (Cpds. II, III and VI) exhibit little or no sensitivity in the infrared.
  • the emulsion containing the unsubstituted benzothiazole compound (Cpd. I) possesses an absorption peak above 800nm, it gives much lower speed at the longer wavelengths and becomes foggy in the intrinsic region losing Dmax.

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  1. Emulsion photographique d'halogénure d'argent photosensible à laquelle on confère une sensibilité spectrale à un rayonnement infrarouge d'une longueur d'onde supérieure à environ 800 nm grâce à l'addition d'un colorant sensibilisant de formule
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     dans laquelle R1 représente un résidu alkyle comportant de 2 à 4 atomes de carbone ou un résidu -(CH2)mR' où R' est un groupe carboxy ou sulfo et m vaut 2, 3 ou 4; R2 représente un résidu -(CH2)nR" où R" représente un groupe carboxy ou sulfo et n vaut 2, 3 ou 4; Z+ est un contre-ion; et p vaut 1 ou 2, à condition que p soit égal à 1 lorsque R1 est un groupe alkyle et p soit égal à 2 lorsque R1 représente un résidu -(CH2)mR'.
  2. Elément photosensible comprenant un support portant une émulsion d'halogénure d'argent à laquelle on confère une sensibilité spectrale à un rayonnement infrarouge d'une longueur d'onde supérieure à environ 800 nm grâce à l'addition d'un colorant sensibilisant de formule
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     dans laquelle R1 représente un résidu alkyle comportant de 2 à 4 atomes de carbone ou un résidu -(CH2)mR' où R' est un groupe carboxy ou sulfo et m vaut 2, 3 ou 4; R2 représente un résidu -(CH2)nR" où R" représente un groupe carboxy ou sulfo et n vaut 2, 3 ou 4; Z+ est un contre-ion; et p vaut 1 ou 2, à condition que p soit égal à 1 lorsque R1 est un groupe alkyle et p soit égal à 2 lorsque R1 représente un résidu -(CH2)mR'.
  3. Invention conforme aux revendications 1 ou 2 où R1 représente un résidu éthyle et n vaut 3.
  4. Invention conforme à l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3 où R1 est un résidu -(CH2)mR', p vaut 2 et R' et R" sont de préférence des groupes sulfo.
  5. Invention conforme à l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4 où les résidus -(CH2)mR' et -(CH2)nR" sont identiques et m et n valent de préférence 3.
  6. Invention conforme à l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5 où Z+ représente un ion triéthylammonium.
  7. Elément photosensible conforme à la revendication 2 comprenant une couche qui contient une substance fournissant un colorant d'image, située entre ledit support et ladite émulsion d'halogénure d'argent.
  8. Produit photographique comprenant un élément photosensible conforme à la revendication 2, un deuxième élément semblable à une feuille en position superposée ou superposable par rapport à ladite émulsion d'halogénure d'argent, un sachet frangible contenant, de manière à pouvoir la libérer, une composition de traitement et situé de manière à libérer ladite composition afin de la distribuer entre lesdits éléments, ledit élément photosensible ou ledit second élément semblable à une feuille contenant une couche recevant l'image destinée à recevoir, par diffusion-transfert, une distribution selon une image d'une substance diffusible formant l'image formée dans ledit élément photosensible après la distribution de ladite composition de traitement.
  9. Produit photographique conforme à la revendication 8 où ladite substance diffusible formant l'image forme une image de transfert en argent.
  10. Produit photographique conforme à la revendication 8 où ladite substance diffusible formant l'image forme une image de transfert constituée par un colorant.
  11. Produit photographique conforme à la revendication 8 où ledit élément photosensible comprend, dans l'ordre, sur ledit support
    - une couche d'une substance fournissant un colorant d'image cyan,
    - une émulsion d'halogénure d'argent à laquelle on a conféré une sensibilité spectrale à un rayonnement infrarouge grâce audit colorant sensibilisant,
    - une couche d'une substance fournissant un colorant d'image magenta,
    - une couche d'émulsion d'halogénure d'argent sensible au rouge,
    - une couche d'une substance fournissant un colorant d'image jaune, et
    - une couche d'émulsion d'halogénure d'argent sensible au bleu.
  12. Colorant sensibilisant de formule
    Figure imgb0024
     dans laquelle R1 représente un résidu alkyle comportant de 2 à 4 atomes de carbone ou un résidu -(CH2)mR' où R' est un groupe carboxy ou sulfo et m vaut 2, 3 ou 4; R2 représente un résidu -(CH2)nR" où R" représente un groupe carboxy ou sulfo et n vaut 2, 3 ou 4; Z+ est un contre-ion; et p vaut 1 ou 2, à condition que p soit égal à 1 lorsque R1 est un groupe alkyle et p soit égal à 2 lorsque R1 représente un résidu -(CH2)mR'.
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